Kyrgyzstan’s former interior minister Moldomusa Kongantiyev was flown to Manas airport near Bishkek on Monday after being detained in Moscow in a joint Kyrgyz-Russian operation, AKIpress agency reported.

Two sea-to-sea and three coast-to-sea missiles hit a common target simultaneously during the last phase of a large-scale military maneuver in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, said Ali Fadavi, an IRGC commander. The missiles were launched from five different locations.

Sheikh Fu’ad Mohamed Khalaf Shongole, al-Shabaab’s head of mobilisation, called Yusuf Garad Omar of the BBC and Abdurahman Mohamed Yabarow of the VOA murtadeen (people who have abandoned the Islamic faith). This qualifies them as enemies of the religion.